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In the September Quarterly Essay, Hugh White considers Australia’s place between Beijing and Washington. As the power balance shifts, and China’s influence grows, what might this mean for the nation?Throughout our history, we have counted first on British then on American primacy in Asia. The rise of China as an economic powerhouse has challenged US dominance in the region and raised questions for Australia that go well beyond diplomacy and defence....

Allan Quatermain, a professional big game hunter, is approached by English aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend, Captain John Good, late of the Royal Navy. They need his help finding Sir Henry's brother, who was last seen traveling north into the unexplored interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines. On their perilous journey, they encounter such characters as the evil witch-woman, Gagool, and the terrifying King Twala and his mighty army. The award winning Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air brings this classic tale to life with a full cast....

One riverboat. Three dangerous men. A jungle they can't escape. Scarlett Ward has spent her life buried in books, but her newly minted PhD can't help her survive the rainforest. Desperate for one last taste of freedom before a predictable career claims her, she boards a decaying riverboat helmed...

The hilarious follow-up to Murder Most Foul by the multi BAFTA, RTS and Emmy award-winning writer of Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey. Something wicked this way comes... It's 1605 and Will Shakespeare is now a wealthy writer and a respected producer. But when Ann Marlowe arrives at The Globe...

Rivalries ignite into heated romance, lost lovers seek second chances, and friendships turn to something more in these twelve stunning romantasy stories. Including brand-new stories from beloved and bestselling authors including Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Kelley Armstrong, Alexis Hall, L. R. Lam...

***Featuring music from across Queen and Freddie's solo careers*** INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SPIEGEL BESTSELLER Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest showmen of the twentieth century. With his unparalleled voice and searing on-stage energy, he was a great...

Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Norse mythology - in this comprehensive guide. What did Japanese mythology say about the beginning of the Universe? How did Oedipus become the classic tragic hero in Greek mythology? Who brought about the origin of death...

4. maj 1945. Tyskland kapitulrer, og Danmark er atter frit. Samtidig strander 1400 pludselig frie, tyske krigsfanger på Påø Strand på Langeland. Krigsfangerne, som var allierede soldater fra Beligne, Frankrig og Sovjetunionen, var blevet gennet ombord på en flydedok på Rügen fire dage...

Danmark ligger strategisk klemt mellem stormagter i vest og i øst. Vores stræder er smalle, og det gør os til en essentiel passage til Østersøen og Det baltiske Hav – og det betød, at vi kom til at spille en central rolle under Den kolde Krig. I Den hemmelige krig bliver Danmarks...

Det er svært at sige Storm P. uden også at sige Johannes Møllehave – og omvendt. Johannes Møllehave nåede at skrive to bøger om Storm P.'s Fluer – de berømte livsfilosofiske vittighedstegninger, der er blevet en del af vores nationale kulturarv. Faktisk havde han planer om at skrive...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Travelling in Greece, Parker Pyne befriends a doting mother and her 18 year old son. When her son is kidnapped for ransom, Mr. Pyne offers his services. But his involvement could make the perpetrators...

A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today’s best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates...

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress). In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan...

The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his “great expectations.” How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he...

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has...

Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country—kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more inclusive, more egalitarian, more harmonious, less cynical—there’s only one way to start turning that dream into a reality: each of us must...

Well that didn't go quite the way I expected… So the short version is, I used my forbidden magic. But weirdly enough, I'm still breathing. Not only that, but I have a job, a great apartment, and a boss who isn't nearly as grumpy as he wants everyone to think. The only flaw in all this...

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So what happens when you actually die and come back? Hazel Blackwood's "till death do us part" came early when her werewolf fiancé strangled her and tossed her in a grave—but saving herself for six feet of dirt wasn't the afterlife she signed...

She was supposed to be a rescue. Not a temptation. Ozzy Oliver is sent in to pull Salem Bloom out of a trafficking pipeline. But the moment he gets her free, the ring realizes she's gone… and the hunt begins. Now they're trapped in a safe house with one bed, no time, and enemies closing in...

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